Kudos to Ralph Peters for exposing the writers of The New York Times for the frauds and phonies that they are (“Smearing Soldiers,” PostOpinion, Jan. 15).

The Times and its reporters are heavily invested in defeat. With plummeting stock prices and dismal subscription rates, they will spew anything to get attention.

Thank you, Peters, for your honesty and support of our troops.

Adam Damino

Mount Vernon

Peters’ article is very good, but you’re just scratching the surface.

Have you noticed that every major TV-crime show has run at least one episode in which the villains are in the military or are ex-military? There was even a Spike TV miniseries about a Marine unit that goes into wholesale bank robbery.

Larry M. Robinson

Greenville

As Peters notes, “Sen. John Kerry summed up the views of the left perfectly when he disparaged our troops as too stupid to do anything but sling hamburgers.”

This fits with the Times’ latest calumny debasing the military with its psycho-killer obsession, and it’s easily disproved with the kind of investigative reporting that is quite beyond its “journalists.”

Department of Defense statistics show that 97.5 percent of commissioned officers are college graduates, 29.6 percent of warrant officers are college graduates, and 99.1 percent of enlisted personnel are high school graduates.

The military is clearly a cesspool of proto-killers.

David Smith

London

Once again, the Times shows whose side it is on, and it’s not America’s.

Because there is no bad news to report from Iraq, which is driving the paper crazy, it had to turn its attention to something else – the number of murders committed by troops returning from Iraq.

To the Times, this is a major issue. As Peters points out, the Times actually made the troops look better.

If heads will roll at the Times after its blunder, maybe there will be two good deeds that will come out of this.

Bret Wallach

Hicksville

Peters is always on the mark, but his dismemberment of the Times’ front-page portrait of the new “crazed Iraq vet” was in a class by itself.

What a simple question: How does the murder rate among Iraq veterans compare to their peers?

Don’t expect Hollywood to ask it, either.

William Tucker

Nyack

Instead of taking the Times to task for its false and misleading reporting on the “numerous” murders being committed by current war veterans when they return to the states, The Post should be subtly egging them on.

Unlike the Times’ editorial board, the American public overwhelmingly supports our military.

The more The Paper of Misrecord denigrates and maligns them, the better the odds that some of their disgruntled readers will switch to The Post. It’s simple arithmetic.

Emil Maricondo

Brooklyn

After reading Peters’ “Smearing Soldiers,” I want to thank The Post for exposing and denouncing this trash being put out by the Times.

After also reading Peters’ article about the surge and its success (“The Surge at One,” PostOpinion, Jan. 11), I think I’m going to add NYPost.com to my “favorites” on my computer so I can keep up with all of Peters’ writings.

I’m a lady from a small town in Illinois, but I have a big heart that is full of love and pride for our vets.

Nothing about America’s ethics is as black as the devil’s heart, which could be said of the Islamist insurgents. They capture people and behead them for TV.

These people have no morals or conscience. They must be swept from the face of the earth because their goal is to rule the world.

Edward F. McGrath

Sayville

Peters points to propaganda in the Times, the newspaper of record, that war is turning our returning troops into murderers at home, but the Times can also be called the newspaper of the “thinking elite.”

We have been forced to trade with the flag in the Mideast since the birth of our republic.

Vice-President Thomas Jefferson was appalled by President John Adams’ decision to pay tribute to Muslims interfering with commerce.

President Jefferson refit the Navy and sent the Marines to the shores of Tripoli.

Those bent on understanding society only on a rational basis, ignoring today’s challenges in the context of history, place us in the most jeopardy.